Desert Quotes - Page 37

• I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.

  Tim Rutili

  Crazy, Ideas, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it.

  Si Robertson

  Military, Real, Winter

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Space, People

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Eye, Blessing, Self

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• I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

  Li Bingbing

  Earth, Forests, Hometown

  "Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Peculiar, Gone

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Together, Culture

  Source: wineskins.org

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• As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

  Joe Elliott

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Animal, Phoenix, Bags

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert. Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.

  Nathan Parsons

  Reset Button, Mountain, Today

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall mutiny or rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write that there should be no commanders or officers because all are equal in Christ, therefore no master or officers, no laws nor orders, nor corrections nor punishments - I say I never denied that in such cases, the commander may judge, resist, compel, and punish such transgressors according to their deserts and merits.

  Roger Williams

  Writing, Order, Law

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• When you actually integrate the health savings from an improved food system, eliminating food deserts, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, that you don't have to be sort of a person of substantial means in order to have access to healthy food, there are remarkable health improvements.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Order, Healthy

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Interview with Los Angeles Times editorial board, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

  Vera Nazarian

  Oasis, Roots, East

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths. Both are vast, harsh, implacable, homogenous to the untrained eye, and beautiful. Bothallow the wind to roam on the surface. And both serve as wonderful vehicles for human survival stories.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Rose, Juxtaposition

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ocean, Islands, Anchors

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I don't really care what people say. If I'm wearing, like, a tie-dye onesie and I'm in the middle of the desert, I'm not doing it for fashion points; I'm doing it because it's fun or it makes me feel good.

  Jared Leto

  Fashion, Fun, Ties

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Who will mourn the passing of our magnificent kangaroos? Who will remember how the bush once danced in rhythm with the thumping, jumping kangaroos who flew over fences their great tails drumming on the earth? Who will remember the big red male kangaroo lying in the desert sun, his coat almost indistinguishable from the red earth from which he came?

  Sue Arnold

  Lying, Future, Jumping

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• It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern, enlightened Europe and it would be a crime to point out that Jewish settlers in Israel who believe they have a God given right to take the land are, frankly, mad. All the above assertions will, no doubt, offend someone or other.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Believe, Israel, Europe

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• With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology... I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.

  William Seabrook

  Views, Opposites, Psychology

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• I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

  Bill Mollison

  Teaching, People, Students

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just carried on learning and meeting musicians, and I keep finding links between different forms.

  Justin Adams

  Life Changing, Musician, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cells, People, Church

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Running, Rain, Writing

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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